Validation Entity Manipulation

Question

Does anyone have the code or know how this was done (See below)? I found it in a presentation that Pfizer did a few years ago at the Hyperion Conference. I can't figure out how you can manipulate the validation entities from fdm code.
Any ideas?
Greatly Appreciated,
Mike
PS The full presention can be found at: http://www.finitsolutions.com/docs/Presentation-ComplexDataSubmission.pdf
Event Scripts – Validation
Entities
�� The Validation Entities groups inside Hyperion FDM control the
entities that should be force calculated (optional), force translated
(optional) or consolidated inside HFM after the data has been
loaded. It is also used to display entities on the FDM Check
Report.
�� Out of the box, entities need to be specifically hard coded into the
Validation entity group table. With such a large number of
locations, Pfizer would have to spend a lot of time updating these.
�� A script was developed in the AftLoad event to dynamically build
the Validation Entity table based upon the entities that were
loaded to HFM. The AftLoad event runs after the data is loaded
into HFM. The admin’s never needs to touch the Validation Entity
group now for any active location.
Edited by: user8030589 on Apr 21, 2009 11:03 AM

Answer 1

Hi Mike,
This is a complex script as you have to do a few things such as determine the entities that loaded through that location, lookup the HFM parent of each entity that loaded, clear and then write back to the tBhvValEntItem table. I also had to build in some other checks in this script you referenced and subsequent scripts to handle situations where you wanted to keep a high-level parent entity in the group to run a consolidation on.
The script is about 150 lines and I can't just paste an entire script in a forum when clients have paid for it to be developed. If you or your client would like to discuss consulting assistance with getting this into your environment, I'd be more than happy to speak with you. If you'd like to work on it your own, I'd suggest just trying to break it down into each component outlined above section by section.
Regards,
Rob Cybulski, CPA
Finit Solutions
[email protected]